Laois County Council has received planning applications from two separate developers that would see the construction of 19 new homes in the county.
Kingscroft Developments Ltd are seeking planning permission to replace a crèche in Clonroosk Abbey with two residential properties.
Planning had been granted for the crèche when Kingscroft made their original application to develop Clonroosk Abbey in 2005.
The proposed houses would be semi-detached, part single-storey and part two-storey with the development to include parking, landscaping, private open space, and services.
Meanwhile, Whitehorse Developments, trading as Capital Homes, recently submitted a planning application to Laois County Council to construct 17 homes on their site at Leighlin Road, Crossneen.
These 17 homes would form Phase 3 of an overall residential development of 131 dwellings plus a crèche.
The 17 dwellings are to be comprised of the following:
- Eight four-bedroom, two-storey semi-detached houses;
- Four three-bedroom, two-storey town houses;
- One two-storey, four-bedroom detached house;
- Two two-bedroom, two-storey townhouses in a block with two two-bedroom, own-door-access apartments.
The application also includes landscaping, site enclosures and all associated site works and services with a decision expected by Tuesday, February, 25.
As well as residential applications, Laois County Council have begun to receive their first industrial applications of the new year.
Laois Sawmills Ltd are seeking to construct, operate and decommission a photovoltaic solar farm over an area of 2 hectares at their site in Ballymacken, Portlaoise.
The project would comprise of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, a switch room building, Perimeter fencing, hardcore access tracks with underground ducting routes, landscaping, new site entrance and access road to solar farm and existing sawmill facility.
Also specified are surface water drainage works with underground attenuation tank, a revision of existing site boundaries, as well as all associated ancillary development works with a decision expected in early March.
Recycling company MES Ireland Ltd have also applied to construct a warehouse, including a loading bay, at their site in Coolnabehy, Durrow.
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